Cloud Database Engineer
San Antonio TX (Remote/Hybrid)
Qualifications:
Education:
- Bachelors degree in computer science Information Technology or a related field (or equivalent experience).
Experience:
- 7 years in database engineering or a similar role.
- Proficiency in Oracle and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.
- Handson experience with Terraform for infrastructure automation.
- Strong Python scripting abilities for automation and integration tasks.
Technical Skills:
- Familiarity with cloud environments preferably AWS.
- Knowledge of database security best practices and high availability setups.
- Understanding of CI/CD processes and version control tools.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Certifications in cloud platforms (AWS Azure or GCP).
- Experience with additional automation tools or programming languages.
- Familiarity with other database systems such as MySQL or NoSQL databases.
Responsibilities:
Database Design & Management - Design and manage highly available scalable databases using Oracle and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.
- Develop and maintain database schemas indexes and views to support application requirements.
- Monitor database performance optimize query efficiency and ensure system security and data integrity.
Cloud Infrastructure & Automation - Use Terraform to define deploy and manage infrastructure as code ensuring consistent database provisioning and configuration across environments.
- Collaborate with DevOps to integrate database provisioning with CI/CD pipelines.
Scripting & Optimization - Write scripts in Python to automate routine tasks such as backups scaling data migration and recovery procedures.
- Implement monitoring and alerting for database environments using scripting or thirdparty tools.